Sarah Miller Gavin was the second child of Robert Gavin and Margaret Horn. She was born at Watson's Corners in Lanark County on May 25th, 1873. She is with her parents in the 1881 Census in Draper Twp, but in the 1891 Census, there are two 'Sarah Given's in the census records. One is Sarah Miller Given with her parents in Purbrook. Further searching places a Sarah Given with John and Martha Thomson, Chemist / Druggist in Bracebridge. She is shown as:
'Sarah Given, F, 20 years old, b. Ont, father b. Scotland(?), Presbyterian, Domestic Servant.' Perhaps these two entries are not the same woman; however, except for age, the two entries are the same.
Sarah married John Crockford on September 27, 1893. They lived at Purbrook for some time and then moved to Thessalon.
A diary written by a man named John Moon records the following:
"I stayed a short time with John Crockford and family whose place was about half way on a sideroad between Fraserburg and Purbrook. With them was an orphan boy named Walter Scott, Their children were two boys and a girl. The boys were named John and Carlton. This time was the deer hunting season, the first half of November, 1904.........(later entry) John Crockford, the younger family had gone to Thessalon, Algoma in the fall of 1905 and whose cattle I had helped to drive to the railway yard at Bracebridge Station."
John was a farmer and they lived at Livingston Creek (Thessalon area), Algoma.
They had 3 children:
i. Margaret Crockford married John McKiggan September 13, 1916. They lived at Sault Ste. Marie. Margaret died November 16, 1948. John died May 9 1955 Buried in Maple Ridge Cemetery, Thessalon
Their Children:
GAVIN b. Aug 4 1917 never married
ANGUS b. July 6 1919, died 1944 in a plane crash in WW2 and was buried in Wales. His wife Doris and his daughter Alexia came to Canada.
JANET b. Aug 26 1924 married John Pavilius on Oct. 23 1943
ii.John (Jack) Hall Crockford b. May 15 1897, married Jean Jannison and lived in Sault Ste. Marie.
Children:
WILLIAM of Sault Ste. Marie,
ELVA married Harold Fiddler lived London ON.
iii Carlton (Carl) Robert Crockford b. May 9 1901, married Ada Allen on June 17 1925. They lived on a farm near Thessalon ON. Ada was a school teacher. They had a daughter Thelma.
Lanark Era Newspaper Wed. January 28th, 1931:
In Thessalon Twp. Wed. December 31st, 1930 John Crockford died, aged 61 years. Born in
Oneida Twp. Caledonia City [Haldimand Co., Ontario]. the second son the the late John Crockford of Hampshire, England and Charlotte Hull formerly of London, England. At the age of nine, his familymoved to Draper Twp., Muskoka, where he me and married Sarah Gavin in 1885. Theymoved to Thessalon in 1906. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons and two daughters;Mrs. J.A. McKiggan, of Sault Ste. Marie; Thelma, of North Bay, John, of the Sault, and Carl,at home. Also two sisters and two brothers; Mrs. Burnett Lequyer, Bracebridge; Mrs. ArthurWheatley, Detroit; William and Robert Crockford, of Purbrook, Muskoka
Sarah married Thomas Preston Cordukes May 14, 1932. She died February 5, 1943 and is buried in Maple Ridge Cemetery in Thessalon.
Sarah and John Crockford's wedding photo - September, 1893, Muskoka
Their family - John and Margaret in the back row. John Sr., Carlton and Sarah in the front row.
.................................. Cordukes House in Thessalon
Crockford headstone from Mapleridge Cemetery in Thessalon, Ontario 
